We began our day with integration, sensory diets, and Floortime (child-led play). Play is great for creativity, language arts and complex communication skills, abstract thinking, problem solving skills, inquiry and mathematics skills, role-play and drama, fine motor skills, teamwork, and social skills. Sensory diets are so important for regulation, auditory processing skills, teamwork, social skills, sportsmanship, motor planning, body mapping, sequencing, gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, and balance and coordination.
We continued to work on our Cultural Market and used our creativity, fine motor skills, abstract thinking, two-way communication, problem solving, language and math skills (3D shapes, measurement, fractions, and number sense and numeracy). Here we are completing some activities for the market!
Country Flags and Toys
Mr. Carter was our teacher today and went over months, weeks, dates, days, year, weather, time (past, present/now, future), and feelings.
In gym today we played a fun Team Challenge game called Shipwreck. Students had to work with their fellow shipmates to sail (using two gym mats) through choppy seas (gym floor) and locate treasure (yellow cone). Once the treasure was found, each pirate team had to head back to their home island and bury the treasure. Afterwards, we played a great game of soccer. These two games challenged the students' auditory processing skills, hand-eye coordination, teamwork, sportsmanship, motor planning, fine and gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, and balance and coordination. Everyone has been displaying great team work skills, sportsmanship skills, gross motor skills, and the fundamentals of playing on a team sport!
Shipwreck
Soccer
In Mindfulness today we practiced being calm, still, and focusing on our breathing and heart beat. All of our friends were so attentive, focused, determined, and calm while working on their breathing, body awareness and body mapping, regulation, and flexibility.
Here are two friends engaging in a calming writing activity while working on their letter formation, phonics, and word structure.
After lunch we had some relation/regulation time and fixed Mr. Jacob's sentence. The boys had to work together to use proper sentence structure, grammar, spelling, printing and phonics. Next, we had some fun with a Reading Comprehension activity that Ms. D led. The boys worked on nouns, verbs, and adjectives, as well as the components of a story (i.e. characters, plot, setting, etc.) while listening to a short story and retelling a scene using both verbal and visual skills. They also used social skills, team building skills, life skills, problem solving skills, fine motor skills, math skills, complex and abstract thinking skills, two-way communication skills, and spelling, phonics, and language processing.
Mr. Jacob's Sentence
Ms. D's Reading Comprehension Activity
Here we are "mean mugging" for the opening of our dance performance! (this is all I can show you until the big event)
Here we are having some free time. We chose to play Twister, Pizza Fractions, and work on our Cultural Market.
Lastly, we went over our Zones of Regulation and discussed how we were feeling today. We also got to share our own ideas and thoughts on how our day went, and took turns saying one nice thing about our friends from today's work.
Have a great evening! Mr. Jacob : )
HOMEWORK:
1. Help plan, prepare, cook, and serve a family dinner with as little support as possible! (take photos as well!)
2. Gather the appropriate items and ingredients for your cultural market project for next Wednesday, April 5th.
Avery: Pikachu origami
Carter: honey, oil, and cinnamon for facial masks
Sander: troll plants and figures
Eric: Chinese fans, lanterns
and/or toy/game
Ojani: dominoes game
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